Central Iowa - Early November 2019

[lee G.]

11 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

We hire welders and laborers daily.  Kinda cold out there currently.  
 

Seriously though.  STL metro is a job seekers market.  PM if you are looking.  

Whats the pay scale like in STL for welders? My son just came off the solar telescope job on Maui.

[snagged in outlet 3]

33 minutes ago, lee G. said:

Whats the pay scale like in STL for welders? My son just came off the solar telescope job on Maui.

$25 per to start.  If he is D1.1 certified it will more and of course if he is D1.5 even more.  Amazon is building a distribution center behind us and they steal our welders for $35 an hour but the job only lasts until the building is done.  National Cart is also taking our welders.  We train them and they steal them.  Then they come back looking for their job again.  Like I said STL is job seekers market.  If you have project management experience or construction management experience there are a lot of jobs.  Needless to say sales rep jobs are always out there.  Any accounting experience is always available like Gavin said.

[FishnDave]

Thanks fellas!  I may take you up on your offers of help.  My wife's company is also supposed to provide job-finding assistance for me as part of the relocation package.  I've been with the same company for the past 18+ years, so my resume isn't updated at the moment.  I'm thinking of making a career change when we do the move...but I haven't figured out what it is exactly that I'd like to do.  I've enjoyed what I've done, I just feel ready for a change.  I'm a "desk jockey"....I've done  mostly Cadd work, some surveying, some minor construction observation, for civil engineering companies for the past 24 years or so.  Because I have B.S. in Biology. 😏

I do like number crunching.... is there on-the-job training for newbee/wannabe accountants? 

In other news...I drove by 4 ponds on my way to work this morning, they were all 100% iced over.  It was 1 degree F.